Price-Indexed Bonds: Trimming $12 Billion from the Deficit


 

Publication Date: May 1985

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): John M. Palffy

Research Area: Banking and finance

Keywords: Budget

Type: Report

Abstract:

The deficit problem has legislators scrambling for ways to save money in the federal budget. In this quest, it is almost universally assumed that interest on the $1.6 trillion national debt is an item that cannot be cut. This consensus is wrong. Interest outlays in fact can be trimmed through price-indexed bonds, a device that Congress should consider.